We were getting a large amount of meat delivered to our house tonight and my wife wanted me to be home for the delivery so I went through this workout pretty quick. Decided to do a timed session with the accessory work just to get it done quickly. Iām content with the time. I may do this little circuit again and strive for a sub 10min time, but this will take some work as my muscles were giving up in the later sets.
Thanks Simo! Iām pretty excited to have plenty of meat in stock for the next little while.
This is just the box of ground beef! Chicken breast, chicken thighs, new York strip steaks and salmon filets came as well. So my freezer is stocked for a little while!
Iām jealous! I have a freezer full of beef but no salmon. Iāve been going through three pounds of ground beef a week. I make hamburgers for my lunch. I put them together and wrap them and foil and just eat them cold. Itās a great snack when weāre busy. Iāve learned to pack things that I can eat while driving.
I do the same thing! Burgers are easy to eat on the run. Iāve been taking 2lbs of ground beef out of the freezer every day and split between my wife and I for dinner each night then leftover for lunch. So we go through quite a bit of it as well. She is excited to have chicken again as she is getting sick of ground beef lol
My wife is 99% vegan and barely touches any of the beef, chicken, and pork that I cook. I got 1/3 of the cow this year and Iām afraid Iām going to run out of the ground beef before fall. Apparently Iāve upped my carnivore game these past couple of years.
07/15 W1D4 Squat
135 x 5
225 x 5
225 x 5
295 x 5 ā Started thinking about the widowmaker set at this weight coming upā¦
335 x 5
395 x 5 ā This was a plus set, and I was sitting damn close to RPE 9 on rep 5. I was hoping this set would feel lighter than it did.
295 x 20 ā It was hot and humid today and after this set I laid on the cold floor and made a nice man-shaped sweat puddle on the ground.
GIANT SET BW Dips
10, 10, 10, 10, 10
Bulg Split Squats
50lbs x 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
I am going to try and work in a little more unilateral movements over the next cycle or two.
@duketheslaya and @j4gga2, youāll understand when you buy all of your own foodā¦and you weigh 240 lbs
Itās not cheap to feed me. Three lbs of hamburgers is what I eat in my lunch over 4 days of work. I make 1/3 lb patties and eat a couple a day some weeks.
I also eat 5+ lbs of chicken or pork per week. My fridge currently has a pork loin that I shredded for BBQ pulled pork in addition to the burgers.
And lastly, I must admit I drink a lot of protein. You might remember that I bought a ton of supplements from a guy with a failed supplement business. I got protein powder for $4/lb. 10 lb bags of Syntha-6 were $40, 5 lb tubs were $20, etc. I bought $300 worth.
I find myself drinking a couple shakes a day with two scoops these days.
Totally. Thatās why I buy cheap mince and drain the fat out and get whatever low fat yoghurt is on sale. A kilo of yoghurt is two breakfasts for me. Getting bigger aināt cheap.
Iām going to take a guess without looking it up, I could be completely wrong though.
I would say they have the same nutrients and then some since it is just a cucumber that has sat in a brine of vinegar/salt/dill/garlic/etc.
I would count them as a vegetable, but I donāt really count vegetables because I eat a ton of them anyways. I love pickles with my beef, plus the added salt content is great too since Iām still following a few principles picked up from the Vertical Diet (increased salt intake being one of them).
Iāve fallen off the vegetable wagon lately. Iāve gone a whole week where my only vegetables have been potatoes. But I could crush a jar or two of pickles to help.
07/17
Hardgainerās Template W2D1
MAIN OHP
45 x 5
95 x 5
115 x 5
135 x 5
155 x 5
175 x 5
135 x 5 x 10sets
10sets x 5reps is boring as hell.
ASSISTANCE
SUPERSET DB Incline Press
50lbs x 12, 12, 12, 12, 12
DB Deadstop Row
90lbs x 10, 10, 10, 10. 10
FINISHER 5 Rounds for Time: 5 Cleans, 5 Burpees over bar (135lbs)
7mins 39s ā O.M.G. I finished round TWO and nearly passed out as I was basically hyperventilating. Considered just doing one more round, but then talked myself into powering through all 5 since I had already written it down. I upped the rest enough to not die, but holy this was a wake-up call that my aerobic capacity is in desperate need of some work. FVCK burpees, they were definitely the most difficult part of this little finisher for me.
Do what @mortdk says and track your resting heart rate to see progress from your conditioning. Iām beginning to think Iām in decent shape but WODs like that still kill me.
Oh yeah wod and conditioning circuits kills everybody, because you always do them as fast as possible. And one thinks he is in bad shape.
They are great though to get the heart rate up and the sweat pouring.
On another note boring but strong 10x5 is boring as hell, as you say.
Do them as emom set and itās over in 10 minutes.
Cool, Iāll start taking this measurement and see if I can track some sort of progress.
72 BpM this morning sitting at my computer (pre-coffee).
Well Iām glad Iām not alone here!
Ya good idea to try and get through them as quickly as possible, I was definitely keeping rest periods short, but was likely still in excess of a minute for most. This would at least keep me in a rhythm.
I do 10 minutes emom on my DE lifts, and they just goes by very quickly. Take a breath, look at the watch and start. Boom finished.
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About resting heart rate:
count them first thing in the morning before getting out of bed. If you have one of those armwrist monitors itās very easy because they track all night. If not you have to do it manually.
Itās a very precise tool for gauging your bodys readiness.
If you have over a period a stable number lets just say 55 and thing are going well itās good. If the number drops, you are getting in better shape. And it will become steady at say 50 BPM.
Here comes the best part if the numbers suddenly raises to say 60 or more, one of two things: either you are about to get sick or you are beginning to get into overtraining territory and you would have to take a bit of rest to let the body recover. Itās not just one day if it raises and stay raised over more than 3-4 days.
